PSY 449 - Directed Research & Community Outreach

1-6 credit(s)
Directed Research and Community Outreach provides students with the opportunity to participate in a research project with a psychology faculty member AND a community organization. This opportunity provides practical research experience in a community service related project, as such it does have a civic engagement designation. Research that benefits community organizations facilitates a more competitive application for graduate programs and jobs. Although this experiential may not be used as elective in Psychology, it can be used toward civic engagement requirements. As such, students or their research supervisor must submit the project proposal to the Center for Civic Engagement for inclusion in their ongoing catalog of CE projects underway in the College of Arts and Sciences. Instructor’s consent required. May be repeated for credit more than one semester for up to 6 credits.
Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Civic Engagement.